On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:54:10PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Of course not, but if the scatterlist is only touched by kernel code, it > doesn't need to be contiguous in memory. It could be allocated with vmalloc().
Except vmalloc has a higher latency and a more restrictive API than other allocators (think about the coherency issues with SMP systems which may have to do TLB flushing on several cores, etc.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
